Sample of key projects Completed

Lead program designer and project manager for leading boutique bank End to End Accountability Program

This blended learning journey focused on introducing the key language and principles of accountability to enable people to make and keep wise promises. It also aimed at building an accountability and collaborative mindset across the business and to enable people to take responsibility to delivering a superior client experience. It also focused largely on the techniques and developed the skills required to hold others to account for keeping their promises.

The learning intervention included a top team diagnostic to engage the team towards leading the culture change process and to provide the data required to build a customized and client specific program. A two day experiential workshop for people leaders and a half day experiential workshop for staff plus action learning assignments and an embedding process were some of the key components. Also selected and trained the client delivery team of external facilitators.

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Lead program designer, facilitator and project manager for Leadership Development Program for major telecommunications company

This blended learning journey focused on enabling the next generation of leaders to develop their people, this twelve month project aimed upskilling leaders in taking responsibility, adopting a possibility mindset, being adaptive and coaching others to improve overall performance.

The learning intervention included an experiential workshop, action learning assignments and follow up monthly coaching session in learning pods.

Project managed, designed and facilitated a Top Team Development Journey for the CIO team of a major telecommunications company

This top team alignment journey was initially designed to build cohesion within a newly created management team and was ultimately conducted over three years to meet the changing and evolving needs of the business, this team and its members. This project aimed at creating highly trusted, adaptive and effective team leaders and members.

The top team alignment journey incorporated key team and leadership concepts and principles introduced by Katzenbach, as well as a Team Effectiveness Scorecard (TES) to track, focus and monitor the journey’s progress. A customized blended learning journey involved experiential learning processes to reveal and close ‘knowing-doing’ gaps and to bring the building blocks of the Lencioni expert team model to life. The top team alignment journey also incorporated the use of the Lifestyles Inventory (LSI), the Group Styles inventory (GSI) through Human Synergistics, and included targeted Executive Coaching Programs to improve individual leadership effectiveness and capability.

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Lead program designer for a Transformational Leadership Program for the Information Technology Group of a major Australian Bank

This three month design project built a year long learning intervention to enable IT leaders (through mindset & behavioural change) to improve employee engagement through maximising the constructive aspects of their core cultural instincts, and to increase capability for their delivery the growth of excellent relationships.

The learning intervention incorporated a mix of facilitator led experiential workshops, leader led education modules and an on line e-learning reinforcement program.

Project managed, designed and facilitated a Culture Change Program for a major industrial manufacturing company

This six month culture change program was designed to facilitate the behavioural and mindset changes amongst its top 120 senior managers and team leaders to re-engage the hearts and minds of its workforce and deliver on the financial promises made to its owners.

The first step included a Culture Diagnostic using both quantitative (OCI) and qualitative (one-on-one interviews) measures. An Accountability and Leadership Program for the senior management team was then piloted which included undertaking the LSI 360 degree feedback process.

Senior management team applied and integrated the key concepts by focusing on holding others to account and by linking accountability principles to their newly developed strategic plan.

The Accountability and Leadership Program was then cascaded down to middle management (88 managers and team leaders) in six stages over three months that included a culture champion training program, cultural awareness workshops, LSI 360 degree feedback process, accountability workshops and business unit integration plans.

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Examples of Executive Coaching Programs Focus and Results

• CEO of a financial services organisation being bought out by major industry player successfully stepped up to new & higher leadership role in what became a public company.
• CEO of a successful marketing business able to develop the leadership capability to facilitate the delivery of business goals, resolve staff issues and accelerate business turnover.
• Safety and Compliance Manager in a state government department enabled to effect constructive industry wide change through successfully influencing major stakeholders.
• IT Operations manager of a major Telecommunications Company shifted leadership style from aggressive defensive to constructive to effectively lead team through change, ambiguity, a major business restructure and a later business merger.